“The starting point for the painting was a detail taken from a painting by one of my favourite artists – Danish Situationist Asger Jorn. I think instead of worrying about his ongoing influence on my work, I decided to bring it forward in the form of this very small detail that I’ve blown up and reworked on a large scale – repeating back to front and then upside down – reducing in size each time to create or suggest a kind of eternal spiral. Combined with this colour palette – so associated with depictions of demons over time, it echoes the idea of forever in the title and also combines this idea of high and low culture, which is also a forever kind of theme in my work”. 

– HARLAND MILLER

Harland Miller was born in Yorkshire, UK, in 1964 and lives and works in London. Solo exhibitions include ‘Imminent End, Rescheduled Eternally’ (2022–23), White Cube Bermondsey, London; ‘The French Letter Paintings’ (2021), White Cube Paris; ‘York, So Good They Named it Once’ (2020), York Art Gallery, UK; White Cube Hong Kong (2019); ‘One Bar Electric Memoir’ (2017), White Cube Mason’s Yard, London; ‘Tonight We Make History (P.S. I Can’t Be There)’ (2016), Blain|Southern, Berlin; Somerset House, London (2016); ‘In Dreams Begin Monsters’ (2015), Palacio Quintanar, Segovia, Spain; ‘Sculptures in the Close’, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK (2013); ‘Wherever You Are Whatever You’re Doing This One’s For You’ (2013), Reflex, Amsterdam; ‘A Decisive Blow Against If’ (2013); Other Criteria, London; ‘The Next Life’s On Me’ (2012) White Cube Hoxton Square, London; ‘On Overcoming Optimism’ (2012), Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh; ‘Penguin Series’ (2012) Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy; ‘Have You Ever Stopped to Wonder Why You’re Not Here’ (2011), LAB Art, Beirut; ‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2005, 2006, 2007); Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (2004); and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1996). In 2008, Miller curated the group show ‘You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil’ at White Cube and Shoreditch Town Hall, London.